PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

51st Pennsylvania Regiment

51st PA Newspaper Articles

• The Gallant Colonel Thomas S. Bell is No More

51st PA Regiment Books

• The Civil War Journal of Colonel William J. Bolton: 51st Pennsylvania, April 20, 1861 - August 2, 1865

51st PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Harrisburg November 16, 1861.
• Left State for Annapolis, Md., November 16.
• Attached to Reno's Brigade, Burnside's North Carolina Expeditionary Corps, to April, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Dept. of North Carolina, to July, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April, 1863: Army of the Ohio to June, 1863; Army of the Tennessee to August, 1863, and Army of the Ohio to April, 1864.
• 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to September, 1864.
• 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, to July, 1865.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Duty at Annapolis till January 9, 1862.
• Burnside's Expedition to Hatteras Inlet and Roanoke Island, N. C., January 9-February 8.
• Battle of Roanoke Island February 8.
• Moved to New Berne March 11-13.
• Battle of New Berne March 14.
• Expedition to Pollocksville March 21-22.
• Expedition to Elizabeth City April 17-19.
• Camden, South Mills, April 19.
• Duty at New Berne till July.
• Moved to Newport News, Va., July 6-9, thence to Fredericksburg August 2-4.
• March to relief of Pope August 12-15.
• Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 16-September 2.
• Battles of Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30; Chantilly September 1; Maryland Campaign September 6-24.
• Battle of South Mountain September 14.
• Antietam September 16-17.
• Duty at Pleasant Valley till October 27.
• Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 27-November 19.
• Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• Burnside's second Campaign. "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863.
• Moved to Newport News February 19, thence to Covington and Paris, Ky., March 26-April 1.
• Moved to Mount Sterling April 3, to Lancaster May 6-7 and to Crab Orchard May 23.
• Movement to Vicksburg, Miss., June 3-17.
• Siege of Vicksburg June 17-July 4.
• Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10.
• Siege of Jackson July 10-17.
• At Milldale till August 6.
• Moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, August 6-20.
• Duty in Kentucky till October.
• Operations in East Tennessee till November 14.
• Knoxville Campaign November 4-December 23.
• Campbell's Station November 16.
• Siege of Knoxville November 17-December 4.
• Pursuit of Longstreet December 5-29.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Regiment reenlisted January 1, 1864, and on Veteran furlough January 11-March 9.
• At Annapolis, Md., till April 23.
• Rapidan Campaign May 4-June 12.
• Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Spottsylvania May 8-12; Ny River May 9; Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21. Assault on the Salient May 12.
• North Anna River May 23-26.
• Ox Ford May 24.
• Line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.
• Totopotomoy May 28-31.
• Cold Harbor June 1-12.
• Bethesda Church June 1-3.
• Before Petersburg June 16-18.

  Service & Battles - 1865

• Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.
• Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30, 1864.
• Weldon Railroad August 18-21.
• Poplar Springs Church, Peeble's Farm, September 29-October 2.
• Reconnoissance on Vaughan and Squirrel Level Road October 8.
• Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28.
• Fort Stedman March 25, 1865.
• Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
• Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2.
• Pursuit of Lee to Farmville.
• Moved to City Point, thence to Alexandria April 20-28.
• Grand Review May 23.
• Duty at Washington and Alexandria till July.
• Mustered out July 27, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 12 Officers and 165 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 137 Enlisted men by disease. Total 314.